CPPFLAGS are now used by the Makefiles
bugfix in libcc.fs
OPEN-LIB now can open libraries without extension and the library's
symbols become global
libltdl from libtool-2.2 or higher required (will be included soon)

added STACK_CACHE_DEFAULT_FAST configuration variable
fixed some bugs
added some primitive/state combinations
changes to support up to 8 stack cache registers
Worked around an unresolved bug in kernel/toolsext.fs

minore bugfixes (Makefile.in)
enabled 3-state stack caching for gforth-fast and gforth-native
bugfixes (EXECUTE and PERFORM; spbREG use)
explicit register allocation to spb for gforth-native, but not gforth-fast
Due to the shortest-path algorithm this means that gforth-fast uses only
S0 and S1, not S2, so we could keep that.
However, we probably want to use more states etc. for other
architectures, so we may want to have a way to select different
cache.vmg and different peeprules.vmg files for different
archs, builds, and binaries.

Defined run-time routines (docol etc.) as primitives, eliminated some
special-casing and "+DOESJUMP+1" etc. in engine.c and main.c
Defined the enum type PrimNum and replaced many shorts with PrimNums
(gives nicer gdb output)
Workaround for the absence of the FPE_... macros in FreeBSD/Alpha 4_STABLE

Gforth now supports large files (>2GB) on small machines (32-bits/cell).
forth.h now asks for all kinds of POSIX, X/Open, and GNU support.
rearranged include files such that forth.h precedes the system files.

new engine gforth-native (works on 386 arch only for now).
appropriate changes in control-flow instructions in prim
new primitives SET-NEXT-CODE and CALL2 (not necessary for the other engines)
new primitives COMPILE-PRIM1 and FINISH-CODE
prims2x.fs now produces IMMARG(...) macros for initializing immediate args
prims2x.fs: changes in some of the output-c-tail words (goes with the
changes in the control-flow words).
appropriate changes in engine.c
engine.c: rewrite of check_prims, support for gforth-native (NO_IP)
threaded.c: support for NO_IP
various kernel files: started to eliminate return stack manipulations for
embedding data (e.g. string literals); incomplete.
dynamic superinstructions now use LABEL2 instead of IS_NEXT_JUMP
FORCE_REG has no effect if DOUBLY_INDIRECT (gcc-2.95.1 crashes otherwise;
it's unclear which change provoked this).

lit@ and lit+ are now defined as superinstructions
compile lit @ and lit + instead of lit@ and lit+
extended prims2x to support superinstructions with non-C-names
(syntax: forth-name /c-name = ...)
support profiling of interpreters with superinstructions
(with simple instructions in the output).
profile output with prefixes only (enable by editing profile.c).
optional reporting of static superinstruction lengths (compared to
dynamic superinstructions); enable by compiling with -DPRINT_SUPER_LENGTHS

prims2x now replaces "TAIL;" in the C code with appropriate code for
terminating the primitive
Most conditional branches now use "TAIL;" to have two NEXTs
This brings performance back to the level before Nov 12th 2000

prims2x.fs now generates the return stack stuff from the stack comment
most references to rp were eliminated from prim
currently this comes with a performance penalty, because
conditional branches now use just one NEXT instead of one for the
branch and one for the fallthrough

HTML is now produced with makeinfo (of texinfo-4.0)
Files are now always opened binary (on the C level).
READ-LINE now knows how to handle LF, CRLF, and CR.
Added primitive NEWLINE, so the newline conventions of the host OS don't
spill into the images.

Made block 0 the first block and provided OFFSET for backward compatibility
(store 1 there).
Fixed bug for negative buffers.
Added a type in write-file for OS-less ports.
Some corrections to make the SHARC port compile again.
HAS_DEBUG is now a central flag which replaces perror and fprintf if not set.

Major re-write of manual sections concerning text interpreter and
defining words. Much fine-tuning of other sections. The manual is
``nearly finished'' -- at least, all the major pieces of work that
I envisaged for the first mods (which were only going to take a
couple of weeks...). The manual has grown from 127 pages to 192
which is good news in terms of content but bad news in terms of the
time it takes to print out on my HP550C DeskJet.
Other changes are just tweaks to glossary entries.

-Added my name to the ToDo file under documentation
-Glossed the oof files
-Minor glossary additions elsewhere
-Another set of changes to gforth.ds; mainly the addition of material
to the introductory chapter. Also, re-organised stuff in the oof
sections and made a typo pass over a few other bits.

New "docclean" target for makefile (removes glossary dependencies when
rebuilding documentation). Changes to .fs files and prim are restricted
to glossary (\G) additions for the documentation; this has necessitated
the addition of new white-space in places to stop the \G stuff from
obscuring the code. Many additions to doc/gforth.ds - new sections
added, a few things moved and some sections re-written slightly. There
are a set of things to tidy up before this rev. is suitable for
release, and those will be my highest priority. I have also used
"@comment TODO" to highlight other sections I plan to work on, and
added a set of comments at the start to indicate other things I plan
to modify in the medium-term.

Added some documentation (files stup, blocks stub, Mini-OOF implementation)
Added Benchres for my machine
made DOS and Win32 compile and run
New gforthmi.bat script for DOS - needs a temporary file for the commands
instead of the -e option.
Added select.o again for DOS (DJGPP's select is broken wrt timing)
Improved select.c
Bug with DOS: engine-ditc doesn't compile with optimization on. Maybe I need
to get a new GCC version for DOS?

SHARC-porting aids that benefit generally:
Cross: Added non-byte-addressed architectures as possible target (not hosts
yet).
Rest: all types are now Gforth-private types (so you could define as Char
whatever you where like). Some messing around with inabilities of Analog
Devices port of GCC.

various changes in configure.in and the Makefile.in's:
symlinks kernel.fi and arch/machine eliminated
utilize some automake stuff (e.g., @VERSION@ and @lispdir@)
eliminated engine/version.h
eliminated replace.a; gforth[-ditc] is now built by engine/Makefile
getopt_long replacement is now donw through LIBOBJS, like everything else
automake-induced changes in acconfig.h; added acinclude.m4 and AUTHORS.
aclocal.m4 is now generated (it's still in CVS because there's not yet a
make rule for it).
made gforthmi more conformant with GNU standards (--version etc.).
prim: fixed portability bug (RTLD_GLOBAL does not exist everywhere)
arch/power/machine.h: refined cache flush code
doc/gforth.ds now uses @VERSION{} (but we need to generate version.texi)
documented new buffering behaviour